Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-27

me said. II notics that al the players
f3icsed In enc wav o. anseheF play
prssty good ball. CaxukheEs vas sid
90 have had heart disease last Summer.
bot i didn't appear 70 interfere With
splendid gork II TIE neld. I hope Pyleis
tFoahls vii turn cut tie ssns way
CaScaQg Tr56ame.
Kansas CITY asd Sc. L0ais are out and
Indianapolis b in The great League
sauahble which has been aRitast1e he
baseball world fer the past four months
IL over for time, 81 least How long
peace and good viii wili reign in The
circles Of the old bedy 10 . matter Of
eoniectare- As this time the o1tiook 70
not very favorabls for q long c0nkinu-
anca Of the present status The guar
anfea plan Of DIVIDING gate receipts 10
bot blessing feature for three OF four
Of the clubs IN the organization. and
under its provisions several clubs Will
have hard time 10 make thsiF receipsa
balance their expenditures. 1he De-
troit snd Indianapolis el1bs viii 81
peeislly have q hard road 70 travel
TIE former club 10 said TO hass had an
exuense account last season Of between
$50 900 and $4,000. Last season. IN
der the percentage plan, they made big
money in New York Chicago, Boston
and Philadelphia. This season, with
the exception Of the money they
receive from the NeW YORK and Chicago
clubs, which made concessions. they
will be compelled TO live on the receipts
Of their home games. Detroit isa fairly
COED baseball city, bot IL will have to
be Q remarkably good one to keep club
moving With such an expense ecceunG
It 10 an easy matter 20 &c that the At
tendance ct home games will have 10 b
remarkably large. The club will only
play sixty-three games, and. with an
expense accS unt aRRreRating $66,O0o or
sac, 200. they viii have to play 10 $1,000
every game to break even on the season.
Nov, there are very few cities IN the
country that will average that amount
Of mosey to q game. Indianapolis, too,
would stand q far better chance under
the percentage system, and the wRiteg
believes that the League will have to re-
turn to that plan Of dividing gate re-
ceipts before the opening Of another
season. The League has always had
several clubs shat were dependent on
the other clubs. and il still has. They
will therefore return to their cid style
before next spring.
Minneapolis claims to have siQnsd q
phenomenal young pitcher in Jimmie
Allen.
The Detroit salary list for the aP-
preaching season is, IN round numbers,
$47 900. Brouthers and Richardson
get $1,000 each; Rowe and White, $500
each; Bennett, 5000; Baldwin. $500;
Hanlon, $500; Thompson. the big right
fielder. $2lO0; GetEeiD, $4,000; Dunlap
$45O0; Ganzell, $500; jimmy ManuiRR,
the left fielder Who had an arm broken
on tbs polo grounds last Decoration
Day, $500; Smith, pitcher, $500; Con-
way, $500; Twitehsll, $500; GiIlen.
catcher, $500; ShiudIe, $500; Wat
kins, msnaeer. $4,000, and Secretary
Bob LeadIey, $1,000.
There was one thing done Of the
Northwestern League meeting which
was not noted in the newspaper reports.
This vas the readoption Of the reserve
rule. Last year this rule was abolished,
bat under it next year each club will be
permitted TO reserve fourteen mens The
reservation, however. will apply only 20
the League itself. for under she National
agreement the National LsaRue and the
American Association are at liberty to
AO0A00u
slayer whose services they may desire.
OF course it is optional with the player
to ge with any of those clubs. The
rule, however, will have one good effect,
as it will have q tendency to keep down
salaries and prevent such disputes az
that which was at one time promised
over Sage, nov Of the Dss Moi -es.
Manager Hart, Of Milwaukee, from
bis experience With the new rules in
California, is prophesying their early
modification. He calls them totally
bad. Receut ly game was played in St.
Louis between Maroon players and the
home team, and the following was given
in relation to the rules: Il was pracsi-
cally demonstrated that the new rules
were weak in certain places, in which,
by the way, the anticipation was all the
other way, and strong in other places in
which it was expected they would inter-
fere with effectiveness. The game proved
clearly that the amendments changing
the number Of strikes and balls 10 four
and five respectively we're made without
veiRhty consideration. The alteration,
IL will be remembered, vas prompted
by the hope that the increase in the
number Of strikes and the decrease in
the number of called balls would greatly
add TO the batting strength of the
weaker hitters, not to say to
that of the stronger. IL was
observed that sueh il not the case.
Men who could not secure q hit in three
strikes found that the fourth chance
was but little il any use at all, and she
number of men who struck out was
qoite as large as il would have been bad
the game been played under the old
regime. On one side of the ground ne
less than a round dozen of batters died
at the home plate with the stick in their
hands, and five did the same thing on
the other side. Again, Notwithstanding
she supposed restriction placed on the
pitcher in the matter of called bali,
four men only vent TO base on this error
on one side, while the other pitcher did
not give the opposition q single his BY
sending the batter to fi'st on bad pitch
ing. On the other hand, u was OBJ
served that che new rule affecting the
delivery Of the pitcher, had scarcely any
OF the handicappinR effect which many
pitchers have claimed for Il. II vas
found that the pitchers could toss Il
with az much speed a. ever, though
possibly With less carve, and could throw
TO base With as much safety as ever. II
il lie not too early 10 predict, IL might
not be unsafe 20 hazard q prediction
that the strikes and balls rule will be
changed, say 10 three strikes snd four
balls, before the season becomes gray
headed.